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Appleton Chapel.

The text of Rev. Henry Van Dyke's sermon yesterday evening was Hebrews xi : 8, "And he went out not knowing whither he went." He said: (1) Faith is an adventure, it is going out into the unknown future under the guidance of God. Faith recognizes that life is a pilgrimage whose course and duration can not be forseen. The man who has no faith either accepts the uncertainty of life as a necessity of fate, he is caught in the net of a hidden destiny which to him can never seem anything else than a blind chance because there is no purpose and no love in ie: or else he fights against the uncertainty of life and tries to conquer it by his own skill and prudence and pertinacity. Thus every event that crosses his plan is a cause of anxiety and irritation, and every call of duty that lies outide of it is an interruption and a burden. (2) In the broadest meaning of faith's adventure is the surrender of life to a hidden guidance. Faith knows whither Christ has gone and it knows the hidden way. And along that way it presses to its promised land of peace.

The choir sang the following anthems: "They That Wait Upon the Lord." - Stainer. "Like as the hart." - Novello. "God is Love." - Shelley.

Brown, Captain of the Shattuck crew of St. Paul's School, will enter Yale next fall.

The Yale Union will tender a banquet to the Harvard representatives and their friends on March 25th at New Haven.

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